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For 2000 years the Bible has inspired and guided human lives, providing wisdom and strength. It provides evidence and witness for the beliefs of three major world religions. Some consider the Bible dangerous, while others have died for it, but the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800697242Author Amanda PorterfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Fortress Press,U.S.

Today the United States is plagued with cultural and political polarization--the Reds and the Blues. Because religion has been of great significance in America right from the first colonists who believed themselves to be God's chosen nation, it is not...

This is a unique collection of all the surviving acta, some never previously published, of the first four Norman archbishops of Canterbury - Lanfranc, Anselm, Ralph d'Escures and William of Corbeil. This period saw the development of a new sort of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881416114Author Alistair C StewartImprint St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Publisher St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.

Calling for a worshipful attitude towards God, this work summarizes the Christian life in terms of worship, joy and the challenge to grow into full stature. Also discussed are doubt, holiness, prayer and man's relationship with God.Book InformationISBN...

Heralds the revival of a newly democratic and participatory church that transcends narrow Vatican doctrine. Destined to be a seminal text of progressive catholicism, this beautifully written and uncompromising book examines the serious moral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881415629Author AllardFormat PaperbackImprint St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Publisher St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

This latest edition to the English Episcopal Acta series brings together for the first time edited versions of all the extant charters issued by the bishops of Durham between 1241 and 1283: Nicholas Farnham, Walter Kirkham, Robert Stichill and Robert of...

Who has time for community in the modern metropolis? The answer may surprise you: apparently lots of us. As this book discusses, religious communities have long been an important way for people in all parts of the modern city to come together. Whether in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830833559Author Dr Craig A EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830837199Author Chris R. ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint IVP BooksPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 368g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802456519Author Rosalie de RossetFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Moody PublishersPublisher Moody Publishers

St. Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373, canonized 1391) was one of the most charismatic and influential female visionaries of the later Middle Ages. Altogether, she received some 700 revelations, dealing with subjects ranging from meditations on the human...

Archbishop of Canterbury from 1272 until his death in 1279, the Dominican friar Robert Kildwardby has long been known primarily for his participation in the Oxford Prohibitions of 1277, but his contributions spread far wider. A central figure in the Late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432837914Author Bill O'ReillyFormat PaperbackImprint Large Print PressPublisher Large Print PressWeight(grams) 454g

Andrew Fuller's commentary on Revelation (1815) appeared as one of the final statements of his long engagement with biblical apocalyptic writing. Fuller thought through his eschatological commitments as he moved from the high Calvinism of his early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793637444Author Jan Blahoslav LásekFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

This book is one of the first modern collections of studies on important aspects of the Ascension of Isaiah, which occupies a special place among the early Christian writings, due to its complicated origin and its relevance in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042902503Author W.M. WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042901391Author E. W. BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters Publishers

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Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 C.E.: A Reader collects primary sources of the early Christian world, from the last "Great Persecution" under the Emperor Diocletian to the Council of Chalcedon in the mid-fifth century. During this period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503510507Author DECLERCQPage Count 206Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 337g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498291781Author Stephen BaskervilleFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 930g

The Bohemian reformer Jan Hus made a substantial and critical contribution to the development of the medieval church, owing especially to his views and teachings on Scripture, the church, faith, conscience, and spirituality. This book offers a...

New York Times Bestseller! In Jesus on Trial, David Limbaugh applies his lifetime of legal experience to a unique new undertaking: making a case for the gospels as hard evidence of the life and work of Jesus Christ. Limbaugh, a practicing attorney and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555403218Author Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams) 379g

This book documents the history of religious persecution, especially focusing on early Jewish and Christian experiences and the culmination of horrors in the Nazi era, in which six million Jews, over a million Catholics, and many others were put to death...

The Kaleidoscopic City explores the development of Pentecostalism in Hong Kong between 1907 to 1942. Focusing primarily on Pentecostal missionaries and the Chinese leaders who worked alongside them, Alex R. Mayfield analyzes how changes within the social...

This unique book offers a Catholic view of the Holy Land in the debate that rages among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Alain Marchadour and David Neuhaus, two biblical scholars and priests living in Jerusalem, clearly analyze the Promised Land-as...

In 1539, Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto, Bishop of Carpentras, addressed a letter to the magistrates and citizens of Geneva, asking them to return to the Roman Catholic faith. John Calvin replied to Sadoleto, defending the adoption of the Protestant reforms...

Olin's focus in this collection of essays is the historical period of the early sixteenth century, the juncture of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Providing an in-depth alternative to the standard treatment - so often limited to the classical...

The Church and Social Reform studies the nature and extent of Athanasios' social reforms and political involvement during his two tenures on the patriarchal throne of Constantiople. The traditional influence, power, and authority that resided in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823204403Author Donald AttwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 558g

The author examines the role played by Syrian Christians in accelerating the forces of change in Muslim society at two junctures: the formative phase of Islamic civilization and the Ottoman collapse. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy...

Though the Bible is a product of West Asia, its influence on Europe and the Americas has received far more attention than its complex career in the East. R. S. Sugirtharajah corrects this imbalance with an expansive new study of Asia's subversive and...

Why This New Race offers a radical new way of thinking about the origins of Christian identity. Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that from its beginnings sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber...

Michael Peppard examines the social and political meaning of divine sonship in the Roman Empire. He begins by analyzing the conceptual framework within which the term ''son of God'' has traditionally been considered in biblical scholarship. Then, through...

One Unitarian preacher prefaces his opposition to the invasion of Iraq by insisting that meaningful religion is a process of "ongoing revelation." He pits this essential "liberal" tenet against the closed-canon biblicism of "the...